Dispatch audio from the fatal police shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. captured first responders saying he was shot in the back

• Andrew Brown Jr. was fatally shot by a sheriff's deputy in North Carolina on Wednesday.
• A first responder was heard on a dispatch call saying Brown was shot in the back.
• Body camera footage of the shooting has not yet been released.

A first responder at the scene of the fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. said he was shot in the back, according to dispatch audio.

Recordings of a dispatch call compiled by Broadcastify and CNN show emergency personnel discussing Brown's injuries.

"Be advised EMS has one male, 42 years of age, gunshot to the back," a first responder can be heard saying.

Brown was fatally shot by a Pasquotank County Sheriff's deputy in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, on Wednesday, while law enforcement officers were carrying out an arrest warrant on felony drug charges.

Brown was fleeing sheriff's deputies when he was shot multiple times, the sheriff's office said. Brown's family said he was unarmed at the time.

Seven Pasquotank County Sheriff's deputies have been put on administrative leave since the shooting, while two others have resigned and one has retired.

The Brown family and protesters across Elizabeth City have called on the sheriff's office to release body camera footage of the shooting.

North Carolina law requires a court order for police to release body camera footage.

Sheriff Tommy Wooten said the footage would be released in the next few days, and Elizabeth City Council has voted unanimously to petition the Pasquotank County Sheriff to release body camera video.